Arturo Ripstein

Known for DirectingBorn 1943-12-13 (age 82)Mexico City, Mexico

Arturo Ripstein y Rosen (born December 13, 1943) is a Mexican film director. Ripstein got his break into movies working as an uncredited assistant director for Luis Buñuel. In 1965, he directed his first feature, Tiempo de Morir. Written by Carlos Fuentes and Gabriel García Márquez, it began a tradition of making independent films written by high-profile Latin-American authors. His 1981 film Seduction was entered into the 12th Moscow International Film Festival. His 1989 film Love Lies was entered into the 16th Moscow International Film Festival. In 1997 Ripstein won the National Prize of Arts and Sciences, the second filmmaker after Buñuel to do so. Some of Ripstein's films, especially the earlier ones, "highlighted characters beset by futile compulsions to escape [their]destinies". Many of his films are shot in tawdry interiors, with bleak brown color schemes, and seedy pathetic characters who manage to achieve a hint of pathos and dignity. Asi Es la Vida, according to Jonathan Crow, "boldly reworks the ancient Greek drama Medea, employing a dizzying array of flashbacks and Brechtian devices". Deep Crimson, according to the New York Times, is "a ferociously anti-romantic portrait of an obese nurse and a seedy small-time gigolo whose bungling scheme to swindle a succession of lonely women out of their life savings turns into a killing spree."Read more

Movies & web series

Los héroes y el tiempo

Triángulo

Mi gran noche

The Specter's Road

The Drunkard

La causa (Tres preguntas a Chávez)

The Castaway on the Street of Providence

Exorcismos

The Exterminating Angel

The Beginning and the End

Simplemente Maria

Jugaremos en el bosque

The Place Without Limits

Castle of Purity

La sonrisa del Diablo

The Virgin of Lust

Aunt Alejandra

Deep Crimson

Devil Between the Legs

Dulce Desafío

Autobiografía

La belleza

Trail of Death

Life Sentence

Time to Die

The Illegal

The Black Widow

Familiarities

Bleak Street

Los novios de mis hijas

Seduction

The Ruination of Men

Kurosawa: The Last Emperor

The Reasons of the Heart

Arturo Ripstein habla de Luis Buñuel

Cuartelazo

Speaking of Buñuel

La mujer del puerto

Adriana del Rio, actriz

No One Writes to the Colonel

Mariana

The Holy Inquisition

Lecumberri, the Dark Palace

The African Lover

There Are No Thieves in This Village

Whoever is Responsible

Dangerous Game

Divine